Moby Thesaurus List
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Description
This file holds the Moby Thesaurus, a public domain word list released by its author in January 2001. The documentation notes describe it as the unabridged main thesaurus file, distributed in plain ASCII for the MSDOS systems of its day. Vocabulary files arrive in ordinary text form, so any program can read them without special tools.
A thesaurus of this kind groups words by likeness of meaning, giving writers and software a stock of alternatives for any term. The Moby lists became a standard resource for word games, writing aids, and early language software. Readers opening the file will find data, not prose: long runs of related words, built for lookup rather than for reading straight through.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Unknown |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 5 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |